Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps. – Lemony Snicket Category: Curmudgeonesque
There are some mortals who are never happy save when they have some hurt feelings to enjoy. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894 Category: Curmudgeonesque
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. – Edgar Saltus Category: Curmudgeonesque
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou, PBS, 1988 March 28th Category: Curmudgeonesque
I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. – William Butler Yeats Category: Truth
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life’s Little Instruction Book Category: Graduation
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. – Oliver Herford Category: Charm
